backups are not the same as pressed

[DL]

Small problem, I have been making the Jacket_TS fold for all my backups since my player holds many disk and it is easier to have it ID what the DVD is. Plus it makes for a nice easy way to select which movie you want. My problem is on standard DVD (purchased) each picture comes up as it should however, on all the backups the pictures come up but some times in other DVD slots. In other words one picture may show up in two or three slots but never in the slots of the pressed DVD. Is there a trick to having it read? In each Jacket folder there are three indentical images that DVD Maestro places based on the .bmp file I dictate.

Any help would be great. I am tired of telling my wife I did not make three backups of the same movie.
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[slk001]

This sounds like a problem with your player. Most DVDs don't have the JACKET_TS directory, and it looks like your player will display the last picture in memory if there isn't one. If you have access to a player that is only single disk (and, will play the jacket pic - mine doesn't play them), try it on that one. The JACKET_TS directory on the pressed DVD may be empty, or contain only "blank" images (black page).

[geffroman]

Isn't it actually a JACKET_P folder...?

[DL]

Yea I got fat fingers and a small brain. Sorry type-o

[TRILIGHT]

Others have posted about this problem. It seems to be a problem with how the player handles storing this data and not necessarily the disc itself. For instance, if you were to take the disc and use it on a single-disc player, you would never notice anything. Apparently it's something to do with the way the player identifies the disc and, with a single player, this storage location gets reset with placing a new disc in the tray. The multi-disc player gets confused though. I forget where the thread is but if you search, you'll find it here.

[DL]

Thanks, I contacted Sony and they said it stores the information and only changes it when a new disk is place in the system that has a different ID. So maybe many of my disk have the same ID. Any thanks for the response

Dl

[TRILIGHT]

Yeah, that's what I thought it probably was. It's reading the perm info "pre-written" to the disc. This is the same sort of information reported when using DVDdec or ADVinfo to read the manufacturer of the disc. Personally, I think it's a bad idea for them to use this information if it's going to be similiar or the same on two different blanks. Not in so much as it applies to movie backups but also home videos transferred to DVDR. What they should be doing is looking for a JACKET_P folder, storing what is found there if it exists, but then CLEARING that info should the disc be removed from that location for any reason. Surely it is not difficult to do things that way. It's just not how they chose to design the player, opting instead to read the disc ID. Not a bad idea but, ultimately a poor choice in my opinion.